Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson (R-La.) is now more eager than ever to get President Joe Biden to firmly promise to bolster border security in the United States in exchange for greater help to Ukraine.
Since Russian troops invaded their nation over two years ago, Ukrainian forces have been unable to drive them out of the country’s eastern regions despite constant efforts. The head of Ukraine traveled to Washington on Tuesday, pleading for more military support.
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Johnson is standing by his demand for a comprehensive strategy to secure the border. He highlights that before considering an aid package for Taiwan and Ukraine, there must be a solid and all-encompassing strategy.
He pointed out that even though the Biden administration had given Ukraine more than $100 billion, there was still no clear strategy in place. In the two years that Joe Biden has been president and the Democratic Congress has controlled the House of Representatives, the national debt has risen to almost $34 trillion.
“I have asked the White House since the day that I was handed the gavel as speaker for clarity,” Following the meeting, Johnson informed the media. “In order for Ukraine to prevail, the approach must be clearly stated. Furthermore, they haven’t responded adequately thus far.
“What the Biden administration seems to be asking for is billions of additional dollars with no appropriate oversight or clear strategy to win and none of the answers that I think the American people are owed,” he continued.
“I have also been very clear from day one, that our first condition on any national security supplemental spending package is about our own national security first,” Johnson added.
Biden is pleading for an additional $61 billion in help to Ukraine.
“In the last three months – October, November, December alone – we’ve had more illegal crossings at the border than in any entire year of the Obama administration,” Johnson mentioned in a statement on Tuesday. “The American people see this. The feel it acutely.”
Republican Johnson is among those pushing Ukraine to engage in negotiations with Moscow in order to stop the expensive war, even if it means ceding territory.
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According to Senator J.D. Vance, providing Ukraine with more funding won’t have a major effect on the continuing conflict, as he stated in an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN.
“On the Ukraine question, in particular, everybody knows, everybody with a brain in their head, Jake, knows that this was always going to end in negotiation,” Vance told Tapper.
“The idea that Ukraine was going to throw Russia back to the 1991 borders was preposterous. Nobody actually believed it. So what we’re saying to the president and really to the entire world is, you need to articulate what the ambition is. What is $61 billion going to accomplish that $100 billion hasn’t?” The Republican from Ohio continued.
“We have to remember, Jake, Ukraine is functionally destroyed as a country. The average age of a soldier in the Ukrainian army right now is 43. That’s tragic. That’s older than me. I’m 39. If this thing goes on a little bit longer, the average age of the Ukrainian soldier is going to be older than you, and then, a year later, it could be a Wolf Blitzer. That is a tragedy. What does it look like?” he asked.
“We are getting to a place where we’re going to be functionally on the hook to pay for Ukrainian pensioners, to rebuild the entire country. We need to bring the killing to a stop, and that’s what American leadership should be doing, not writing more blank checks to the war,” he said.
